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...thud that Restaurateur Toots Shor, 61, made when he tumbled off the wagon echoed all over the gossip columns. "Booze is beautiful," Toots bellowed to Leonard Lyons. "Through booze I met two Chief Justices, 50 world champs, six Presidents and DiMaggio and Babe Ruth." Gregarious Toots hadn't had a belt for an astonishing nine months, ever since he took a dive on a Washington hotel floor last March and broke his hip. "I vowed not to take a drink until I could stand on my own two feet," Toots graveled in his Manhattan diner. But now that...
...marchers. The tents rose anyway. "If necessary," preached King, "we're willing to fill up all the jails in Mississippi." The only reply was the clicking of rifle bolts as the cops advanced. Ten yards from the marchers, they halted, donned gas masks. There was a pop, a thud, a flash of orange, then a smoky cloud. Soon, dozens of red, white and blue canisters loaded with tear gas and an antiriot irritant were sailing smack into the mob. Marchers scattered in confusion and pain...
...Yardlings' 5-0 record against opposing freshman teams includes 9-0 shut-outs of Dartmouth, Brown, and M.I.T. Amherst salvaged a single win, and Princeton, whose freshmen beat Harvard last year, fell with a convincing 7-2 thud...
...Harvard baseball team descends again to the workaday world this weekend after its 27-9 soar into Brandies could-cuckoo land. But the Crimson will land with a thud unless the hitters can scrape up some runs against Columbia today and Army Saturday...
James M. Holloman '69 and George B. Meszoly '69 had just entered the Yard when Meszoly, who was walking five feet ahead, heard a thud and turned to see his roommate fall to the ground...